dammit

just another star trek blog

[aroaessidhe]

aro & ace books: where they already know they're aspec (adult)

whether they're 100% out and happy in their identity, or still closeted or working through pressures from amatonormativity. They may still be questioning aspects of their sexuality, but they know they're ace already. There's a mix here of books where their sexuality is significant to the story, and where it's literally just mentioned offhand.

YA / adult questioning

contemporary & romance

Looking for Love in All the Haunted Places - ace woman, m/f

Kiss Me Maybe (knows she's ace, figures out she's greyace) - ace woman f/f

Kiss Her Once For Me - ace woman f/f

Thaw - ace woman f/f

The Romantic Agenda - ace woman m/f

Upside Down - ace man m/m

Her Own Happiness - ace man m/f

Ace of Hearts - ace woman m/f

Life Underwater - ace man m/nb

That’s What She Said - ace woman m/f

We Go Forward - aroace woman

fantasy

The Thread That Binds - aroace agender, greyace agender

Baker Thief - aroallo genderfluid, demisexual woman

Death Valley Blooms - aro woman

An Accident of Stars - aroallo woman (major character)

Kill Your Darlings - ace woman

Awakenings - mutliple aroace MCs

The Day Death Stopped - ace woman

sci-fi

Time To Orbit: Unknown - aroallo nonbinary

Lord of the Empty Isles - aroace man

The Circus Infinite - ace man

Be The Sea - demisexual nonbinary MC, ace man SC

horror

Small Gods of Calamity - ace man

Benothinged - aroace nonbinary

historical

A House Between Sea and Sky - aroace woman

As Old As Thyme - grey-aroace man

#aspec books / aspec database / tumblr masterpost

info included here is brief! please see my database for full details of the books 21/7/26

[psychic-waffles]

We're at the "JK Rowling is personally funding litigation to try and destroy AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL" stage of rabid UK terf brain.

Screenshot via Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net on bluesky

Tldr Amnesty International, global human rights organisation, published a report called 'A growing threat: the anti-rights movement in the UK'. In it is detailed, amongst others, a whole bunch of transphobic groups and organisations, including Beira's Place, JK Rowling's trans exclusionary sexual violence support service. JK Rowling threw a shit fit and got Amnesty to take the report down by threatening libel. This was obviously not enough, because you can't appease a fascist, so now she's going to bankroll a bunch of lawsuits anyway through the JK Rowling Women's Fund.*

You can read an archived version of the report here, please save it and share it.

*Not so friendly reminder there is no way to engage in the wizard books without enabling this shit.

[theinternetarchive]

from 'bird by bird: some instructions on writing and life,' anne lamott, pub. 1994.

[yorgen-sh]

The Chinese shoe manufacturer decided to demonstrate the indestructibility of their shoes

[scarlettohairdye]

And also the indestructibility of that woman's ankles

[deadpowol]

[ryan-sometimes]

Tumblr I need everyone to log in rn because the most important, quotable, instantly iconic celebrity post of the century just dropped

[ryan-sometimes]

A ship — a magnificent ship — full of gay men. And me.

I am furious, but I am sailing.

[creekfiend]

the fact that "bargaining" is a stage of grief. + the fact that when I'm in extreme pain all I can do is lie on the floor and say "please please please" = we are such social animals. we really really really just have a brain that is wired for "surely there must be a way I can interact with someone else that will fix this" even under the most extreme of circumstances, where any rational thought will see a total absence of guys, such as when one is alone in the woods dying of exposure. humans have such a big hole inside us that's for "Someone Else" like a social placeholder such that we keep engineering stuff like religion in a million different ways in a million different places and times. we gotta have

1. social

2. narrative

and if none is provided to us we will make our own out of dirt and sticks

I love humans and I also find us kind of heartbreaking honestly

[wolfythewitch]

furthest we've ever been

[thefriendlypigeon]

❤️💙💛GRACEFUL💛💙❤️

⭐[my social media links]

[sunflowers-and-scales]

“this character did not act in the most objectively logical way possible!” is not ! actually valid literary criticism

[sunflowers-and-scales]

i have trust that the media literacy enjoyers will find this one idk

[acceptableduraz]

[dduane]

An excuse to visit this Dublin pub

(For non-Irish folks: "lads" is a local unisex plural. Also: "skint" = "broke". )

(a little article about the pub is here)

Meanwhile, next time I'm up in town, Imma go over and have a glass of wine there (though it's a bit out of my normal stomping grounds) and thank them. 🙂

The Thomas House (on Google Maps)

[dhaaruni]

This is very good

[dhaaruni]

This is very good

[belovedfrodo]

[megacarapa]

ok so this is another long shot but a few years ago there was a twitter post (in japanese i think?) that had measurememts for how to make this book stand thing out of cardboard that you could use to double up books and use up more space on shelves

back then i made a bunch of these but by now i lost the pic and dont know how to find the original post anymore

if it comes down to it i can just take one apart and get the measurements from there but i would be very grateful if anyone happens to have the original post or something similar??

[megacarapa]

don't mind how long it's been since i made this post, anyway i realized that i don't even need to take one apart to get the measurements when i can literally just unfold it and refold it /FACEPALM

so anyway here is the diagram for anyone else who is interested!!

this requires pretty big carboard pieces, if you have a really big box or something you can make it from one piece, but if you don't, you can also just make each of the pieces individually and then tape them together

and then in the end you put it together like this!!

and then when you make a bunch you can put them all next to each other and stack your books like crazy

EVERYONE START GETTING MORE USE OUT OF YOUR SPACE NOW!!!!

[shutyourmoustache]

The unbridled joy here is making me feel All the Things™️.

[pineappical]

think about it long time